NYT’s Benner: We Thought Trump Broke Norms For 4 Years, But In Fact He Established Norms | Deadline

New York Times Justice Department reporter Katie Benner looks at how long we will be experiencing the impact of Trump’s politicization of justice and rule of law. Aired on 01/27/2021.
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    1. @Steam fish White rice he won’t want to move to either of those countries, Biden will probably start launching nukes at them in a month or two.

  1. Just imagine if a horde of lunatics stormed the Capitol every election year just because their candidate lost. What kind of country would we have?

    1. @Chaos stop acting like you care about Portland. You don’t. No one is condoning that violence. You act like they’re doing those things and going home. There have been arrests and he has denounced them

    1. Richard Flower true. flynns brother said he was in the room as natl guard requests were being processed (and delayed). imo, though i agree with the principle that the sins of his brother, who was on stage inciting the riot just minutes before, should not result in his brother’s punishment, i also believe that prudence dictates the brother should be removed from any command authority (basically forced to retire, with benefits). we have to remember that trump was still replacing top pentagon staff only weeks earlier, clearly in anticipation of something like this, and it is a bit much to believe it was coincidental that flynns brother was anywhere even close to the decision to bring guard troops to the capitol on a day that trump had clearly planned for for weeks and even months before as a “chance” event. better to be safe, than sorry. one mans reputation is not worth risking the entire country for. btw, same with trump himself. the minute he became “irreplacable” in his own, and his supporters mind the threshold was crossed. the president merely works for us. politicians are a dime a dozen with two thrown in for free. if there isnt anybody in the gop that can stand up to him he is, by definition, a problem.

    1. @Steam fish White rice he is a wealthy person they do not get in trouble the people that are judging it are wealthy people nothing what’s going to happen to Trump

  2. Trump has been breaking norms for over 60 years. That’s why his parents sent him to military school when he was 13. His mother hoped military school would prevent him from becoming a monster. Unfortunately, it didn’t.

    1. He was sent off to military school because his mother got very sick and I’m not defending the man because I like him that’s just the facts

    2. He has always had emotional problems. His father protected him. Apparently noone on the left read his nieces book as the most dangerous man in the world . Lindsay, Marco, Ted, Rand, he made fun of all of you. Your support of him makes you all look like fools.

  3. Trump just listen for 4 years to Alex jones and Roger Stone and others like them….these crazy violent conspiracy ideas have been spread by these people for more than 10 years.

    1. @Hairy legs Corn Pop And the cow ran away with the spoon. So you’re going to cry and complain for
      the next 4 years? It sucks to be you.

    2. And all this because a Democratic nation had the audacity to elect a Black POTUS in 2008.
      Everything you see them doing, every lie they tell, every child they stick in a cage, every person their unhinged gunmen murder, stems from their outrage at that happening 13 years ago.
      Oh, they’ll lie again and tell you it’s not about that, but it is. That’s what they think they’re “taking their country back” from.

    3. I can’t hate on Trump he was able to scam 74 million people to vote for him , it’s so sad and scary!

  4. I don’t think people should make the simple sound/be more complicated than it is! Trump didn’t break norms or establish norms! ALL Trump did was mimic others like Erdogan, Putin, Jong-Un, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, etc AND was allowed to get away with it by a weak-minded society. In other words, people gave Trump permission to step on the Constitution, the Rule of Law, the truth, decency, and themselves. So what are the ‘established norms’ now? Simple: The low standards society has set for its leaders and the permission that leader now feels so emboldened to do since given permission- step on some Americans like so many other rulers/despots/dictators has/have. If in fact Trump has established new norms, what that actually means is that society has given/granted him the permission to do so! It also means that whoever else comes after Trump will see clearly a society which doesn’t value itself and a society unworthy of freedom and democracy! Hmm?

  5. The new trend of Republicans changing parties since Jan. 6th. is encouraging. In my opinion. Almost 10,000 in Arizona.

  6. I am weary that he will face any consequence for attack on Capitol. Let’s hope that NY AG is ready to follow through with the mountain of crimes he’s committed as a NY resident over many decades.

    1. It seems to be devolving to that. Wasn’t it the FBI following the money trail that ended up removing Al Capone, despite many vastly more heinous crimes?
      Unsatisfying but if it’s the best they can do, bring it on Cy Vance.

  7. With Trump’s example of doing whatever he wanted, the Democrats have a precedent and can do the same: great new ways to Impeach Trump.

  8. I’m moving to the 40k Universe
    Where they at least have a functioning government, and they burn traitors and mutants rather than letting Fox “News” run the place

  9. Somewhere in Texas…
    “Laura, Laura! I’m no longer America’s least favorite living ex-president!”

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